Mondamin, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51557. The Survey maps it on the Mondamin quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMondamin fell from 402 to 339 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 402 | |
| 2020 | 339 | -63 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Mondamin quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mondamin between 2006 and 2018, burning about 774 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 715 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mondamin in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Law enforcement report of a roof blown off a home, associated with estimated 50-60 mph winds with a thunderstorm outflow boundary. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Mondamin | - | This is a continuation of river flooding from the end of June. River levels crested along this stretch of the Missouri at the end of June, hence flood waters were receding by this time. As such, the greatest impacts were felt in June (and discussed in the June entry for StormData). For the first part of July while flood waters continued to recede, continued impacts were felt in the form of residual flooding in low-lying areas of roads, trails, and riverfront properties. Any property damages associated with this event are in June StormData to coincide with when the river crested. As such, have set damages for this entry to zero. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Emergency manager reported a few small tree limbs broken down and on roadways. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Emergency management relayed report of destroyed homes due to downed large trees. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Tree limbs over 1 foot in diameter were broken off in damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Large tree branches blown down 2 miles north northeast of Mondamin. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Local law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph in the vicinity. |
| May 2007 | Heavy Rain | Mondamin | - | The public reported some minor flooding due to 1.7 inches of rain that fell in 20 minutes. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | A semi-trailer was blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph caused some tree damage near Mondamin. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Mondamin | - | Hail between 1.5 and 2 inches in diameter was reported around Mondamin from 820 through 832 pm cdt. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | Law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph which uprooted trees in Mondamin. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Mondamin | - | Hail up to golfball size fell around Mondamin. One person reported that all of the windows were broke out on the south side of their house and numerous holes were punched in the siding. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Mondamin | - | The hail broke windows out of dozens of cars and caused siding damage. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Mondamin | - | The third severe thunderstorm of this day to track across the Mondamin Iowa area. This one produced up to 1 inch hail from the town of Mondamin to 3 miles east of town. The storms also produced numerous reports of funnel clouds. However, video from chasers, including accounts from off-duty NWS employees, suggested that there were probably no tornadoes with these storms. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Mondamin | - | Reported by a TV meteorologist. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Mondamin | - | Interstate 29 covered |
| April 2017 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Mondamin | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echo | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Orson | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Modale | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| River Sioux | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Little Sioux | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Magnolia | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Calhoun | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pisgah | 9.8 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Mondamin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928370 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 459168. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




